Draegar

Name: Draegar Thorne, the Bloodborn Reaver Race: Human Sexuality: Straight

Appearance and Attire:

Your character is a formidable figure, cloaked in layers of practical and protective gear. They wear thick hide pants and a matching shirt beneath chainmail leggings and a chainmail vest. Over this, rugged leather armor serves as both added protection and utility, featuring multiple straps and buckles to hold weapons and tools

Belted across the leather armor are numerous straps and buckles, each holding a variety of weapons. An arming sword is sheathed across their back, while a long dagger hangs at their hip. Their other hip bears a hand crossbow, its custom holster designed for quick access, along with a pouch for spare bolts. Their leather gloves are both functional and reinforced, featuring textured palms for a firmer grip, while metal plating on the backs of the hands offers an added advantage in hand-to-hand combat. A black mask covers their mouth and nose, leaving their red eyes as the only exposed facial feature, adding a bit of mystery to their already imposing appearance.

Finally, draped over them is a slightly tattered grey cloak, its edges frayed with use. The cloak's hood casts a shadow over their face, leaving only their glowing red eyes visible. These eyes—piercing and intense—glow brighter in moments of combat or heightened adrenaline, a mark of their demonic abilities. Despite their supernatural powers, no other physical demonic traits are visible. The skin around their eyes, like the rest of their body, is human in appearance but tougher—resistant to damage due to their demonic powers. It requires more force to pierce their skin than it would that have an average human.

Their hair is brown with a reddish tint. Their movements are swift, fluid, and almost unnaturally graceful, a product of their demonic rebirth, allowing them to outpace most adversaries and strike with an uncanny precision

Abilities and Attributes: While the character’s appearance may seem intimidating, their true strength lies in their physical abilities, enhanced from their Devine reincarnation. Their speed, endurance, and overall combat ability are superior to any normal human. They can move with precision and strength, and while their skin is more durable, it still retains vulnerabilities—requiring increased force to cause injury. Their supernatural power is evident in their glowing red eyes when they are in combat or experiencing heightened emotions like adrenaline, but aside from that, their traits are subtle, making them an enigmatic and unpredictable presence.

Despite his brutality and his dark, serious demeanor while on a job, Draegar aspires to do what he believes would be the right thing. He’s not a person who is against torture, blackmail, and assassinations if it can result in the safety of or benefit more innocent parties. He was given a gift with this new lease on life, and he intends to help out anyone who may need it.

Personality: Stoic, introspective, pragmatic, relentless, enigmatic, loyal, controlled, morally-gray, charismatically cold, driven,

Weaknesses: Draegar is stronger than his peers, and he knows it. However, this has lead him to become a bit cocky when it comes to any sort of physical challenge. Knowing he is better than others has lead to him underestimating some of his opponents, while at the same time his cockiness may in turn cause his opponents to think less of his abilities. Things usually end up fine for him, but he’s taken several beatings in his younger years by stepping up to challenges he shouldn’t have.

Strengths: Along with his enhanced physical capabilities, he has learned from his father to setting things verbally as he’s gotten older. While being able to diffuse situations, he’s also used his wit to insult and make fun of his opponents in an attempt to get into their heads or catch them off guard.

Magical abilities (spells are from DND): Shadow blade (conjure a blade of solidified shadow), Darkness (can cast a sphere of darkness up to 15 feet in diameter), Misty step (able to teleport self up to 15 feet away), Silence (eliminate all sound within a 10 foot cube), Dispel magic (cancels any magical effects within 10 feet), Invisibility for up to 30 seconds.

Backstory: Cultic followers of a nearly long forgotten demonic entity performed a dark ritual in one of their many hidden sanctums, hoping to summon a god-like being capable of unleashing untold destruction. After hours of chanting and bloodletting, a figure arose from their ritual’s centerpiece, but it was not the expected entity. Instead, a crying infant emerged in its place.

A hundred years earlier, in a village besieged by bandits, a woman went into labor after the death of her husband, the first victim of the raid. As she prayed desperately for any god to protect her child, all gods turned a deaf ear— all except two; Gladeon and Malicorm, the gods of nature and death respectively. While the former argued that the child was taken before his time, the latter insisted that the child was simply a victim of poor timing. The child died shortly after birth, but Gladeon, upset that a a living being was taken so soon, plucked the child’s soul and flung it through time. Upon discovering his intentions, Malicorm attempted to catch the soul, but realizing he was too late to stop it, he bestowed the child with supernatural strength. If he wasn’t going to have his soul, he would ensure this child would be physically able to send others his way.

Meanwhile, the cultists, confused and bewildered by their seemingly failed ritual, debated what to do with the child. Before they could decide, the royal guard stormed their hideout, slaughtering the cultists and arresting any survivors. The child, now orphaned, was left in the hands of the kingdom’s soldiers. Captain Tharja Parkins, in charge of the raid, took the child in, but no suitable parents could be found.

Tharja eventually married Mathias Thorne, a renowned scholar and historian, and the couple raised the boy, naming him Draegar Thorne. Tharja helped Draegar manage his unusual abilities, teaching him how to control his strength in public, while Mathias instilled in him the importance of intellect and diplomacy. Draegar grew up aware of his differences but content in his new life, until his parents revealed the truth of his origins. Though he’d always suspected something was off, learning the story of arising from a pool of blood after a dark ritual left him with a new question: Why would a god choose to resurrect him?

Upon entering adulthood, Draegar enlisted in the guard as his adopted mother did. Without the threat of war any time soon, he as assigned to work as a city guard patrolling the streets at night; but this did not satisfy him. Skilled in combat and diplomacy, wanted to leave the royal guard and pursue a career as a bounty hunter and adventurer. His mother supported his decision, understanding his desire for adventure, but his father had reservations. Still, Mathias and Tharja, proud of the man Draegar had become, gave him gifts of family heirlooms—an old dagger from Mathias’ father, leather armor from his early days as an adventurer, and, from Tharja, a custom arming sword and chainmail vest.

With a new name—the Bloodborn Reaver—he set out on his journey, vowing to uncover the truth of his resurrection and the gods who had played such a peculiar role in his life.

A few jobs he’s taken aside from the usual bounty:

1. Heard rumors of an orphanage mistreating orphans. Upon investigating, discovered the “orphans” were actually full grown halflings, gnomes, and dwarfs that were disguised as children. The owner, staff, and “orphans” used the orphanage as a front and actually sold illegal and stolen goods.

2. Tracked down a man wanted for the murder of a famous wizard that put on parties for children, only to discover the person being charged wasn’t the real murderer, but rather a doppelganger who changed shape days prior and was unaware of the charges. The real murderer was actually one of the deceased at the crime scene, but he was burnt beyond recognition by a fire that broke out that no one knew he had died.

3. The Duke of the region of Low Flat (known simply as Lowf) paid Draegar to follow his daughter as he suspected her of dating a man who was a spy for a rival Duke. In reality, the daughter was the spy and the man knew nothing of her intentions to divulge family secrets.

Randoms things he has done:

1. Once shot an arrow too high over the head of a fleeing bounty, only for the arrow to strike a hornet’s nest in the path of the bounty. The target ran back towards Draegar as he had a fear of hornets, and considered jail a safer alternative.

2. At the age of nine, while attempting to build a fire while on a trip with his family, lightning struck the pile of wood just as Draegar snapped his fingers. He went on for five years believing he had the power to conjure lightning.

3. Having more durable skin and a high pain tolerance than a normal human, Draegar reached into a pot of boiling water at the age of six to retrieve what he believed was a gold coin, but was just a trick of the light and a rock. Nevertheless, extended family who witnessed this, already believing Draegar to be a demon, saw this as definitive proof. He still reaches into boiling water every now and then to this day as a bar trick.